My Invicta

I have an Invicta watch that I adore. One day I decided to take a picture of it in some arty way. Earlier that day, I had watched a video of photographers making very painting-like scenes by combining different shots of the same scene lit in a different way. I wanted to try a similar thing.
What I did was set my camera to a 10 second exposure and light the watch for about half the time with an LED pen straight from the top. Then, before the 10 seconds run out, I lit a Zippo lighter on the side to give the picture warm light to contrast the coldness of the LED. The only manipulation was to cut the fluorescent hands from a completely dark (without light source) picture of the watch and paste them to the doubly lit shot to get this very fluorescent hands effect. The rest is the shot as it was captured. The surface under is a simple nylon gym bag. I think this is one of my most successful photos, and probably the most planned one.

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Wintery Caliber srt4

You have seen these car shots with blurred background for certain. But, using Photoshop is not the only way to blur the background. In this shot, you can see the background has been blurred by simply following the car as it passes using a shutter speed of 1/100 s. It was a bit tricky, of course, as the viewfinder gets black as the DSLR's mirror flips up. What I did was follow the car through the viewfinder for a second before I press the shutter, and then try to continue the same motion during the shot.

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Camping fire

Next, I would like to share with you a photo of a camp fire last year. Capturing fire is very interesting. You could go for high shutter speed and freeze the flames for an interesting effect with all the flames distinguishable, or as in my case, go for longer shutter speed and brighten the whole scene also getting smudged flames. The idea is similar to shooting waterfalls.

And then there are the neighbours, who I think got carried away with feeding their fire to an outrageous size.

Here's the start

Lets start off with one of my first photos taken with a DSLR. My camera is a Nikon D3100. Most of the photos, including the one below, are taken with the kit 18-55mm lens. This specific image has a filter applied to it. To be honest, I am not a fan of filters, but in this case it just looked nice. This is one of the rare shots where I left a filter on.